Don’t miss the Farm-to-Table Dinner on the Quad at UNC Asheville, our annual harvest feast! Gathered around the table in the heart of our beautiful campus, we honor and celebrate the land that sustains us, the gardens and businesses that feed us, and our collective efforts to insure that our wider community is engaged and nourished.
The 2018 Dinner will be guest hosted by Michael Twitty. Michael Twitty is a culinary historian, living history interpreter, and Judaics teacher from the Washington D.C. area. He is the creator of Afroculinaria, the first blog devoted to African American historic foodways and their legacy. Twitty’s 2017 book, The Cooking Gene, was recently honored with TWO James Beard Foundation awards for writing and for book of the year.
Our theme for the 2018 dinner will be ONE SOUTHERN FAMILY.”I dare to believe that all Southerners are a family. We are not merely Native, European, and African. We are Middle Eastern and South Asian and East Asian and Latin American, now. We are a dysfunctional family, but we are a family. We are unwitting inheritors of a story with many sins that bears the fruit of the possibility of ten times the redemption. One way is through reconnection with the culinary culture of the enslaved, our common ancestors, and restoring their names on the roots of the Southern tree and the table those roots support.” – Michael Twitty, The Cooking Gene
Tickets are on sale now. Visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual-farm-to-table-dinner-on-the-quad-tickets-48162915577 to purchase yours today. Kids 12 and under eat free!
Michael Twitty will also be offering a free public lecture on September 6th. For more information, please visit https://www.facebook.com/events/972221552936669/
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